Four US states to hold protests against Delhi violence

Protests have been planned in the four US cities of Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco and New York on Friday against the violence in New Delhi that has so far claimed more than 33 lives, as per the media reports.

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The protests have been organised by a group named South Asian Students Against Fascism under the banner of "Emergency! Stop State Sanctioned Violence in India", the state media said in the report on Wednesday.

Participants will gather in front of Indian Consulates in the four cities. The organising group calls itself a movement of South Asian students who are together in the fight against fascism, religious intolerance and polarization.

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